Also I noticed that when I installed the pet in Wary 5.1.1, it says there are some missing libs, but Firefox will still run. I don't know if it will crash in Wary or not due to the missing libs. I copied the libs over from Lucid 5.2.8 and made firefox-8b-libs.pet of them, but don't know if there will be library compatability issues. So use it at your own risk.

I noticed a related issue myself. When Firefox started it complained (but still ran apparently OK) about a few missing libraries. But on my system one or two of them were already in /usr/local/lib, so I included a reference to this directory by amending LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the firefox/run-mozilla.sh startup script.

Thank You raffy. I will check it out and compare it to one in the later versions of firefox.

nooby wrote:

Am I too nosy if I ask what is a run-mozilla with Aurora?

Aurora is the nightly build version of Firefox. It has newer stuff than even the beta version. However, it is also the most experimental build, so there is more possibility of bugs. The official version is supposed to be the most stable. run-mozilla.sh is a script included in the firefox builds. I am not sure of all of its functions, but I will be deciphering the code as best I can.

Ah thanks, I was sure if that it was some kind of Text only browser
that one click on a picture to activate it and that each link was almost
raw html that one click on Ar them named Gecko or something then?

Sorry no need to answer. Thanks for explaining it to me._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

The LD_LIBRARY_PATH quoted above is simply the old LD_LIBRARY_PATH with ":/usr/local/lib" added to it. I haven't noticed any difference mind you, though Firefox no longer complains about the missing libgconf library. I would presume there is nothing in /usr/local/lib to trip firefox up, on my system there isn't.

I have packaged the latest generic builds for Firefox 7.0.1 official and 8.0 beta.

I have also added a script which will remove things left behind when you uninstall firefox from the package manager or when you unload a firefox.sfs file.
Just install the prepare-firefox.pet and in the terminal type bash prepareff. Then install the new Firefox pet or sfs. Running prepareff first will give a cleaner install.
**warning - running prepareff will also remove your firefox bookmarks so please back them up somewhere if you don't want to lose them.

I let Mozilla replace FF7 with FF8. I am not happy with FF8 and want to install the Firefox-7.0.1.pet. My Firefox installation is a little bit unconventional as the .mozilla directory is in the Home directory and it is sym-linked to the root directory.

I am having trouble finding the Bookmarks file. What is it called and where should it be located? The bookmark file in the .mozilla directory in the Home directory appears to be a plain new unused file with no bookmarks.

The bookmarkbackups directory seems to be current and contain good data. Can this bookmarkbackups file be used to replace the bookmarks file when I install the Firefox-7.0.1.pet, after running the prepare-firefox.pet? If it can be used -- How do you use the backup?_________________Don -- Thailand

Hi, Thanks for the FireFox PETS. I had progressively upgraded to 7.01 in 525 from version 5.01 from the About Firefox-Check for Updates Link. All had went well until I upgraded to Firefox 8. Browser took forever to open pages and froze. Flash did not work. So I uninstalled the Firefox 5.01 package and deleted the firefox folder in usr/lib. Rebooted and ran your 7.01 PET and then upgraded to version 8 via Check for Updates link. Reinstalled all my favorite addons and now Firefox is running great!

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